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Pope Leo XIV’s Marriage Advice? Keep Calm and Pray the Rosary

Posted on July 02, 2025 in: Marriage

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Marriage Encounter Experience- August 15-17

Posted on June 30, 2025 in: Events, Marriage

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Reconnect and Renew at the Worldwide Marriage Encounter Experience

Posted on June 25, 2025 in: Marriage

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Embracing Sacrificial Love When Romance Fades

Posted on March 22, 2025 in: Marriage

While listening to a Barbara Streisand CD recently, her duet with Neil Diamond, “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers,” began to play. You remember the song. The wife laments that her husband no longer brings her flowers or sings her love songs. The husband says she no longer talks to ...

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What Had I Gotten Myself Into?

Posted on January 09, 2025 in: Events, Marriage

Sixteen years ago, my wife, Mary-Jo, was approaching a significant birthday. I wanted to do something special for her. I asked our youngest daughter what she thought her mom would want. She immediately responded, “A Marriage Encounter Experience. Haven’t you been listening to her?”...

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Trusting in the Goodness of Our Spouse

Posted on November 19, 2024 in: Marriage

While vacationing this summer at Badlands National Park in South Dakota, my husband wanted to hike a short but steep ascent up one of the vertical walls of stone that comprise the Badlands. Standing at the bottom of the wall, looking up, I was reluctant to proceed. The trail looked too daunting f...

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Diocese Celebrates Faithful Love: Anniversary Couples Honored at Special Mass

Posted on November 11, 2024 in: Marriage

On marriage, Pope Francis has written: “Love is not a feeling. Feelings come and go with the days and weeks. Love is more. It is a commitment to live through good times and difficult ones, through sickness and health, through thick and thin. Love comes from only one source: God. God is the bas...

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Living Out Your Dreams for Your Marriage

Posted on September 27, 2024 in: News, Marriage

Last year, my husband and I presented a marriage enrichment in which we challenged couples to look at their future dreams for their relationship. The premise was that dreaming about their future would help couples shape the choices they were making to see those dreams fulfilled. We were...

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Diocese to Recognize Anniversary Couples

Posted on September 03, 2024 in: Events, Marriage

On Sunday, Nov. 10, the annual Silver and Golden Wedding Anniversary Mass will be held at the Cathedral of Saint Patrick in Norwich. This year’s Mass will honor the enduring love of married couples. The Mass will begin at 2 pm. Each couple registering for the Mass will rece...

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The Beauty of God’s Creation Continues to Stun and Amaze

Posted on August 25, 2024 in: Reflections, Marriage

Editors note: Mary-Jo McLaughlin, Catholic Family Services Coordinator for the Diocese, and her husband, Pat are on a cross-country camping trip this summer. Here she shares some of the beauty and experiences the couple has encountered thus far. Words and pictures are inadequate to capt...

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Pope Leo XIV’s Marriage Advice? Keep Calm and Pray the Rosary

Posted on July 02, 2025 in: Marriage

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Newlyweds Anna and Cole Stevens meet Pope Leo XIV at the general audience in Rome on Wednesday, June 11, 2025. | Credit: Courtesy of Anna and Cole Stevens Pope Leo XIV recently offered marriage advice to a young American couple days after their wedding, sharing how he was blessed by the example of his own parents who prayed the rosary together every day. Newlyweds Cole and Anna Stevens received Pope Leo’s personal blessing for their marriage during one of the pope’s first general audiences under the hot Roman summer sun on June 11, just four days...

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Reconnect and Renew at the Worldwide Marriage Encounter Experience

Posted on June 25, 2025 in: Marriage

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Couples, priests, and religious are invited to take part in the Worldwide Marriage Encounter Experience, a weekend retreat focused on strengthening relationships through reflection, dialogue, and spiritual renewal. Rooted in faith, the program is centered on the real-life experiences and challenges shared by all committed partners. Event Details: August 15–17, 2025 Holy Family Retreat Center, West Hartford, CT This residential weekend offers a peaceful setting to pause, reconnect with one another, and grow in your shared journey. Apply now: wwme.org/apply ...

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Marriage Encounter Experience- August 15-17

Posted on June 30, 2025 in: Events, Marriage

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This summer, give your spouse the gift of your time and discover the secrets to a lasting, supportive, transformational marriage! Consider attending a Worldwide Marriage Encounter Experience. The next one scheduled in Connecticut is August 15-17 at the Holy Family Retreat Center in West Hartford. There’s no group discussion. It’s just about the two of you learning to be the best, most loving and thriving couple you can be. Over the course of the experience, three couples and a priest provide new tools, using examples from their own lives, to help coupl...

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